From the Rose Garden on June 1, President Trump warned that the voices of “peaceful protesters” against the killing of George Floyd, an African American man, in Minneapolis by police have been drowned out by “professional anarchists, violent mobs, or, arsonists, looters, criminals, rider rioters, Antifa and others.”

Two days later, the White House tweeted (and then later deleted) a 58-second video that appeared to offer evidence to support this claim. The video, which gained more than one million views in the less than three hours it was online, purported to show “Antifa and professional anarchists … staging bricks” for future nefarious use.

Yet a closer examination of the video tells a different story.

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In any large group, there are always some bad actors. But the burden of proof is on the accuser, and the White House has provided none. Rather, this 58-second video employed out-of-context social clips to lob unproven accusations and create a misleading impression of what has happened during the Floyd protests. Nothing in the video proves who incited violence or that any of the bricks shown in this video “were staged” to prepare for a street fight.